Centre for Global Studies

All members work on aspects of global politics, particularly global security, international development, and war, culture and society.  The Centre has a strong research emphasis on critical security studies, international development, environmental politics, state building, and emotions in international relations.  War, the central problem of international relations, is also a focus, with research that examines relations between militaries and society, nationalisms, emotions and war, and legacies of conflicts.

Members

Director:  Professor Helen Parr
Members: Dr Moran Mandelbaum, Dr Becky Richards, Dr Barry Ryan, Dr Heidi Wang-Kaeding, Professor Bulent Gokay, Professor John Vogler

Current research projects

• Critical security, focusing on maritime security: Dr Barry Ryan
• State-building and diplomacy, focusing in Somaliland: Becky Richards
• The rise of China, environmental governance, and emotions in international relations: Heidi Wang-Kaeding
• Political and psychoanalytical theories of nationalism: Moran Mandelbaum
• Legacies of war in Britain: Helen Parr
• Global political economy: Bulent Gokay
• Climate change and environmental governance: John Vogler

Recent PhD students

The Centre has a strong record of supervising PhD students, and recent postgraduates include:

• Eleonora Natale (2019) The Argentine military, the military family and the violence of the 1970s: an ethnographic study of kinship.
• Phil Morgan, (2019) The Coalition Government and liberal intervention: Britain’s response to the crises in Libya and Syria.
• Moaz El Sayed (2019) Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon: A framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon’s Sunni demographic (2005-2016).
• Matthew J. Jones, (2018) Public perceptions of the British use of force since 1982: A study of Mass Observation.